SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Literacy Test, Ethnocentrism, Family Reunification

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Bellin

Document Summary

Immigration has always been a hot issue. Politically controversial in the us since the dawn of time. Discrimination centered around economic competition and ethnocentrism. Completely outlawed chinese individuals from immigrating to the us. Goal: investigated impact of mass immigration on us society (up until this point the majority of immigrants had come from england and western europe so all the same culture) Decided that old immigrants (anglo-saxons) were hard working and innovative. Said new immigrants (eastern/southern europe) were opportunists, dirty, pioneers criminal, posed a threat to us. Dillingham recommendations restrict immigration from southern and eastern europe, ban all immigration from asia. Institute a literacy test this set the groundwork for the national origins act of 1924. But an emergency act (emergency quota act) was passed in. 170,000 from the eastern hemisphere with not more than 20,000 per country. All immigration reform is hotly contested/hot topic for debate (don"t want to change.